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Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited
Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited
Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited
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Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.

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Release dateApr 1, 2016
ISBN9781785330940
Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited
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Christoph Antweiler

Christoph Antweiler is an anthropologist and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, London and serves on the advisory board of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

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